Worcestershire SQL Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Structured Query Language (SQL) skills within the Worcestershire region with a comparison to our Programming Languages category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited SQL over the 3 months to 3 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Structured Query Language (SQL)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alderley Edge Andover Aylesbury Ballymena Banbury Banstead Barrow-in-Furness Basildon Basingstoke Bath Beaconsfield Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birkenhead Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Bootle Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Bradford-on-Avon Brentford Brentwood Bridgwater Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Caerphilly Camberley Camborne Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Carrickfergus Channel Islands Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chippenham Cirencester City of London Clevedon Colchester Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Darlington Darwen Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dover Dudley Dundee Durham Ealing East Anglia East Grinstead East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Egham Enfield England Epsom Esher Essex Exeter Farnborough Farnham Feltham Fleetwood Gateshead Gatwick Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Grampian Guildford Gwent Gwynedd Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Harrow Haslemere Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Hendon Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hitchin Home Counties Horley Horsham Hounslow Hove Hull Huntingdon Ilford Ipswich Isle of Man Isle of Wight Isleworth Kent King's Lynn Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leek Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Luton Lyndhurst Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Morecambe Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Paisley Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Redhill Reigate Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Romford Ross-on-Wye Royston Rugby Ryde Salford Salisbury Sandwich Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southall Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southwark St Albans St Asaph Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Taunton Teesside Telford Thame Thames Valley Tiverton Tonbridge Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uttoxeter Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Wallingford Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Bromwich West Lothian West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Wigan Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Woodstock Worcester Worcestershire Wrexham Wycombe Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 3 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	11	2
Rank change on same period last year	-9
Matching contract IT job ads	3	15
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.005 %	0.016 %
As % of the category below	15.00 %	62.50 %
Daily rates quoted	2	4
Average minimum daily rate	£315	£250
Average daily rate	£370	£300
% change on same period last year	+23.33 %
Average maximum daily rate	£425	£350
UK excluding London average daily rate	£322	£328
% change on same period last year	-1.85 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.00	£12.03
Average hourly rate	£35.00	£13.36
% change on same period last year	+162.07 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£40.00	£14.68
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.02	£29.56
% change on same period last year	-8.58 %
Programming Languages Worcestershire
Matching contract IT job ads	20	24
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.032 %	0.026 %
Daily rates quoted	3	4
Average minimum daily rate	£292	£231
Average daily rate	£346	£281
% change on same period last year	+23.23 %
Average maximum daily rate	£400	£331
UK excluding London average daily rate	£317	£330
% change on same period last year	-4.10 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	6
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.91	£27.86
Average hourly rate	£34.36	£29.05
% change on same period last year	+18.28 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£37.82	£30.24
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.95	£32.68
% change on same period last year	-5.27 %
SQL West Midlands

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

SQL
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing SQL across the Worcestershire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

SQL
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing SQL across the Worcestershire region.

SQL
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing SQL across the Worcestershire region.

SQL
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SQL within the Worcestershire region over the 3 months to 3 December 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Worcester	-4	1	-	-

SQL West Midlands

SQL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 3 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Worcestershire region citing SQL also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited SQL.

1 5 (62.50 %) C# 1 5 (62.50 %) .NET 1 5 (62.50 %) SQL Server 1 5 (62.50 %) XML 2 4 (50.00 %) ASP 2 4 (50.00 %) ASP.NET 2 4 (50.00 %) CSS 2 4 (50.00 %) HTML 2 4 (50.00 %) JavaScript 2 4 (50.00 %) Transact-SQL 2 4 (50.00 %) VB 2 4 (50.00 %) MS Excel 2 4 (50.00 %) Microsoft 2 4 (50.00 %) Intranet 2 4 (50.00 %) Internet

2 4 (50.00 %) SQL Server 2000 2 4 (50.00 %) Retail 2 4 (50.00 %) SQL Server 2005 3 2 (25.00 %) Java 4 1 (12.50 %) WebSphere Application Server 4 1 (12.50 %) Business Objects 4 1 (12.50 %) Oracle 4 1 (12.50 %) Struts 4 1 (12.50 %) UNIX 4 1 (12.50 %) OO 4 1 (12.50 %) Oracle Reports 4 1 (12.50 %) LDAP 4 1 (12.50 %) Quality Management 4 1 (12.50 %) Government 4 1 (12.50 %) ClearQuest

SQL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 3 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Worcestershire region citing SQL also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited SQL. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 5 (62.50 %) .NET 1 5 (62.50 %) XML 2 4 (50.00 %) HTML 2 4 (50.00 %) ASP 2 4 (50.00 %) ASP.NET 2 4 (50.00 %) CSS 3 1 (12.50 %) Struts 3 1 (12.50 %) Spring 3 1 (12.50 %) WebSphere	Application Platforms 1 1 (12.50 %) WebSphere Application Server 1 1 (12.50 %) TeamSite
Applications 1 4 (50.00 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 4 (50.00 %) Intranet 1 4 (50.00 %) Internet 2 1 (12.50 %) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 5 (62.50 %) SQL Server 2 4 (50.00 %) SQL Server 2000 2 4 (50.00 %) SQL Server 2005 3 1 (12.50 %) Oracle Reports 3 1 (12.50 %) TOAD 3 1 (12.50 %) SQL Navigator 3 1 (12.50 %) BusinessObjects	Development Applications 1 1 (12.50 %) ClearCase 1 1 (12.50 %) ClearQuest
General 1 4 (50.00 %) Retail 2 1 (12.50 %) Local Government 2 1 (12.50 %) Government	Job Titles 1 4 (50.00 %) .NET Developer 2 3 (37.50 %) Developer 3 1 (12.50 %) Business Developer 3 1 (12.50 %) Java Developer 3 1 (12.50 %) Software Engineer 3 1 (12.50 %) C# Developer 3 1 (12.50 %) Business Objects Developer 3 1 (12.50 %) ASP.NET Developer 3 1 (12.50 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer
Miscellaneous 1 1 (12.50 %) Data Integration	Operating Systems 1 1 (12.50 %) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (12.50 %) OO 1 1 (12.50 %) Project Management 1 1 (12.50 %) Quality Management 1 1 (12.50 %) Software Engineering 1 1 (12.50 %) Knowledge Management	Programming Languages 1 5 (62.50 %) C# 2 4 (50.00 %) JavaScript 2 4 (50.00 %) Transact-SQL 2 4 (50.00 %) VB 3 2 (25.00 %) Java
Qualifications 1 1 (12.50 %) ISEB 1 1 (12.50 %) ISTQB 1 1 (12.50 %) Degree	System Software 1 1 (12.50 %) Active Directory
Vendors 1 4 (50.00 %) Microsoft 2 1 (12.50 %) Google 2 1 (12.50 %) Oracle 2 1 (12.50 %) Business Objects